commerciallawinsouthafrica

Commercial Law in South Africa

reporting the law

The Law Publisher CC is dedicated to
the reporting of commercial law as stated by judges of the higher
courts in South Africa. We do this by publishing a number of titles
all of which are issued periodically. A full listing of these titles
is given here.

Our purpose has always been to report
the law, not to apologise for it. What the judge said, whether said
rationally and with cogent reasons, or not, whether said with due
respect to precedent and the logic of the foundations of our legal
system, or not, we report. While we do summarise the judgments, and
thereby recognise - or confer - a semblance of rationality on them,
we do not pass our own judgments on them. We take them for what they
are, and present them in published form.

In executing our purpose, we admit to
participating in a myth, the myth that the law is independent, a
separate functioning organ of our social life, and a safe port to
which the common man can appeal in time of need. That ideal, honoured
usually in the breach, is also our ideal, for we believe in myths.

The editor and writer of our publications is Advocate Mark Stranex BA
(Natal) Hons LLB (Cape Town) HDipCoLaw (Wits). He has edited the
Commercial Law Reports and written all of the text of Current
Commercial Cases since the inception of both these publications in
1992.

Executive Summary 2012

Executive Summary 2012 presents summaries of the commercial law judgments reported in the S.A. Law Reports and Commercial Law Reports in 2011. The main section is a 40-page compilation of cases decided in the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal, setting out succinct descriptions of the issues in dispute and the reasons for decision.